Course on operational research – The Union / MSF

To build capacity in operational research by product-orientated training

To maintain and increase the number of operational research fellows

To establish a global network of research alumni

To undertake, write up, submit and publish research and viewpoint papers

To demonstrate how research can impact on policy and practice, improve outcomes and reduce morbidity and mortality

To develop and maintain the administration unit of the Centre for Operational Research at The Union and MSF

Content / Milestones of the course:

Three five days module courses over a period of nine months

Within two weeks of completing Module 2, participants must submit a) their final protocol, b) their completed ethics form and c) their completed electronic data collection tool to the course coordinators.

Within two months before the start of Module 3, participants must submit evidence of their data collection to course coordinators.

Within four weeks of completing Module 3, participants must submit their final paper to the selected peer-review journal and provide the course coordinators with the journal’s letter acknowledging receipt of submission

Training Course: Designing and conduction health system research project – IDRC/ WHO

Organization: IDRC / WHO

Year: 2003

Purpose:

a course for learning how to design and conduct health system research (designed as a full-time workshop for 2 weeks, however modules can be used in a flexible way

for mid- and higher- level managers, health workers and health-related staff, as well as interested researchers

method: “learning by doing

Content:

Volume 1 (2003): “Proposal development and fieldwork”, contains 20 modules: includes all the steps in developing a research protocol (from selection of the research problem up to the utilization of results); guide for fieldwork and preliminary data analysis.

Volume 2 (2003): “Data analysis and report writing”, consists of 13 modules: description of variables, measurement of association, significance tests and report writing; guidelines for the planning and management of HSR workshops and the supervision of fieldwork